Despite the inclusion of beach volleyball as an Olympic discipline with a fully professional world tour, little research has been published that has examined the physical qualities of internationally competitive athletes. Thirty international-standard beach volleyball athletes (14 male, 16 female) performed countermovement jumps (CMJ) and squat jumps (SJ) on a force platform. Ground reaction fo...

Briefly speaking, there are two popular Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) standards, H.323 and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). The first standard was designed by ITU and has become the basis for the widespread implementation of VoIP systems although it was not specifically designed for it. The second standard, SIP, was proposed by IETF and it is designed to connect, communicate and exchang...

Abstract The intensity and location of boreal summer extratropical intraseasonal oscillations along the subtropical westerly jet (EISO-SJ) are crucial in triggering distributing extreme events over Eurasia. Based on numerical experiments, this study distinguishes orographic mechanical surface thermal forcing Tibetan–Iranian Plateau (i.e. TIP-MF TIP-TF) EISO-SJ. primarily modulates amplitude EIS...

Sj-FABPc of the blood fluke of humans, Schistosoma japonicum, is a member of the FABP/P2/CRBP/CRABP family of beta-barrel cytosolic fatty-acid-binding and retinoid-binding proteins. Sj-FABPc has at least eight different variants encoded by a single-copy polymorphic gene. In fluorescence-based assays, recombinant Sj-FABPc was found to bind 11-(dansylamino)undecanoic acid (DAUDA), inducing a shif...

Tunicates are the only animals that perform cellulose biosynthesis. The tunicate gene for cellulose synthase, Ci-CesA, was likely acquired by horizontal transfer from bacteria and was a key innovation in the evolution of tunicates. Transposon-based mutagenesis in an ascidian, Ciona intestinalis, has generated a mutant, swimming juvenile (sj). Ci-CesA is the gene responsible for the sj mutant, i...

Mailing address: rua Barão de Ataliba, 125, ap.11, Cambuí. 13024-140. Campinas, SP, Brasil. [email protected] ABSTRAcT Objective: To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of different protocols for measurement of vertical jump tests for the diagnosis of explosive strength in soccer and volleyball players at puberty. Method: Cross-sectional study population of 110 non-probabilistic young...

It is sometimes necessary to send copies of the same email to different parties, but it is impossible to ensure that if one party reads the message the other parties will bound to read it. We propose an entanglement based scheme where if one party reads the message the other party will bound to read it simultaneously. It would be interesting thing if one transmits same or different messages to ...

We suggest some possible interpretations for the D SJ (2632) observed by SELEX. The D SJ (2632) could be the first radial excitation of the 1 ground state Ds (2112), and its unusual decay patten might be hopefully explained by the node structure of the wave functions. In addition, the D SJ (2632) could also be a cs̄g hybrid state or a (cs)3∗ − (s̄s̄)3 (diquark-antidiquark) bound state. Very recent...

Citation: Williams AJ, Wakefield CB, Newman SJ, Vourey E, Abascal FJ, Halafihi T, Kaltavara J and Nicol SJ (2017) Oceanic, Latitudinal, and Sex-Specific Variation in Demography of a Tropical Deepwater Snapper across the Indo-Pacific Region. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:382. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00382 Oceanic, Latitudinal, and Sex-Specific Variation in Demography of a Tropical Deepwater Snapper across ...

BACKGROUND To evaluate normal regurgitant characteristics of St. Jude (SJ) and Medtronic-Hall (MH) mitral valves, four sizes (25-31 mm) of each were studied in a pulsatile flow model. METHODS AND RESULTS Regurgitant flow was measured by flowmeter at left ventricular pressures of 80, 130, and 180 mm Hg. Peak regurgitant flow rates ranged from 6.2 to 12.7 cm3/sec in SJ valves and from 7.9 to 17...